Los Angeles Unified Supt. John Deasy opened the new school year Tuesday with a speech to administrators in which he urged them to eliminate the dropout rate, and then assigned each one a struggling student to look after. Much of Deasy's talk at...
School coaches will be added to the list of jobs required to report suspected child abuse to authorities, according to legislation signed today by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Previously, state law was unclear on whether coaches were mandated to report...
Along the Front Range, there were 61 child victims of sex trafficking identified last year, and at least an equal number thought to be misidentified as drug, domestic violence or runaway cases. On June 23, the latest major FBI sting occurred, rescuing...
"I want to be a paleontologist," my young male patient said, squinting at a wrinkled clipping from the newspaper of a dinosaur skeleton at the museum as I examined him. An impressive aspiration for a 10-year-old who looked like he needed glasses, but...
The Society for Research and Child Development released a report earlier this year that finds that children are at greatest risk of victimization before age 3, a time of rapid brain development, and that abused children are more likely to exhibit poor...
Oree, 19, is attending college after escaping from a life of sexual abuse and prostitution. She was an 11-year-old runaway when she was first forced onto the streets by a sweet-talking but vicious pimp. About 20 percent were victims of labor...
A new study says that children are the most vulnerable and largest population affected by climate change but they continue to be ignored in global negotiations. “ The challenges of climate change: Children on the frontline ”, prepared by...
Ask any child in Gaza to do a drawing and the resulting picture is likely to be a house being bombed by a fighter plane. In the strife-torn Palestinian enclave, thousands of children are suffering from the trauma of war but resources to help them are...
All this hardship is particularly tough on children, said Jane Zehnder-Merrell, Kids Count project director at the Michigan League for Public Policy. Researcher call it “toxic stress,” which is itself strongly associated with increased...
For people connected to the Memphis juvenile courts, April 2012 is unforgettable. That's when federal investigators determined that the Shelby County juvenile court system discriminated against African-American defendants. The Justice Department said...
It is estimated that while psychosis is rare, up to 20 percent of new mothers suffer from some sort of depression after having children, according to Postpartum Support International, a group that promotes awareness of the illness. The Yates case and...
The walls of California’s juvenile halls act as a barrier to a world most people will never experience or understand. More often than not, these halls are viewed as places of isolation and despair. However, others, like Johnny Kovatch, see an...
In July 2014, Youth Law Center and 10 community organizations filed a complaint with the United States Department of Justice calling for an investigation of pepper-spray use and behavior-management practices in San Diego County juvenile facilities. An...
One in five? Yeah, right. Sounds way too high. That’s a common reaction to the oft-cited statistic about the share of women who experience an attempted or completed sexual assault during college. The number can’t possibly be right, the...
When Nimco Ali was 7, she thought her family was going on vacation. They flew from their hometown in Manchester, England, to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. Ali doesn't remember the exact location. But she clearly remembers what happened there. The...